Would You Trust Someone Else With Your Job?

When I go away on holiday I’m always torn between trying to make my job as easy to care-take as possible for the people that are covering, and making sure that I don’t make it SO easy that they wonder what I do when I’m here. I think I got it right when I went away last week because everything seems to be in order, and I still have a job. I was disappointed to notice that the Community blog post that I lovingly crafted in preparation for last Monday and scheduled through WordPress didn’t go live though. I’m not sure what I did wrong. Perhaps it’s timely that while I was away our WordPress book launched! Never mind. That holiday is already a distant memory.

It’s an exciting day for me today. It’s my birthday. I am traditionally someone that celebrates for an entire week – known as the Hawkstravaganza. Who knows what kind silliness will take place. One thing I do know for sure is that I won’t be getting a cake anywhere near as cool as the one that our Facebook fan Tim got. This guy has one very talented wife. Check out the photos of her creation.

Whilst we’re talking Facebook, I’ll take the opportunity to remind you that my new ‘Get To Know Us’ campaign is now into it’s second week. I won’t go into great detail as I did that the week before last, but if you’re interested in the people that work at SitePoint and why it is that we do the things we do, head on over and check out our Facebook fan page. Last week we talked with Mark Cipolla and this week it’s Creative Director Matt Magain on the chopping board.

In my absence I left the management of the SitePoint forums in the capable hands of my team of volunteer staff. True to form they stepped up to the plate and actually ran an entire programming competition. Contestants were required to write a private message utility application. We’ve now entered the judging phase and the winner will be announced just as soon as we have one.

The last thing I’ll mention this week is the fact that we’re currently hiring at SitePoint. We are looking for a talented PHP developer to join our team. If you live in Melbourne (or are prepared to relocate) and think you fit the bill, take a look at the job description and get in touch.

Formerly a developer in the corporate world, HAWK (known as Sarah by her mother) said goodbye to the code and succumbed to the lure of social media. Community Manager for the SitePoint network for several years now. If you're a member of our community you'll be familiar with ^hawk.

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AndrewCooper

Glad to have you back HAWK :) Have an extravagant birthday ;) I yes, I too was wondering what happened to last Mondays community blog post – I figured somebody else would have posted it or it would be left…I missed it! :(

AndrewCooper

Oh, and to answer your question – I couldn’t trust someone else to do my job to the same standard (or a higher standard) than I do it…Unless of course I was paying a lot of money for somebody better than me to do my job, I’d obviously trust them. But generally speaking, the jobs / duties that I solely carry out I wouldn’t trust anyone else to do them!